Epacris rigida is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales.

It is an erect, bushy shrub with elliptic leaves and white or cream-coloured, tube-shaped flowers.

Epacris rigida is an erect, bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of 30–60 cm (12–24 in) and forms a lignotuber.

[2][3][4] Epacris rigida was first formally described in 1827 by Kurt Sprengel in Systema Vegetabilium from an unpublished description by Franz Sieber.

[5][6] This epacris grows in heath on exposed sandstone ridges in the Blue Mountains.